Hello
iam new to this group. Iam currently looking after my mum who has SCLC she’s terminal and in sept was given 3-4months. She’s had rounds of chemotherapy but it seems to make her worse. Lately she’s been struggling with even getting out of bed she’s so breathless. The last few weeks she’s not been well at all with no energy at all and sleeping all the time. In the last couple of days she’s stopped eating and drinking the bare minimum. We went to see the oncologist today and he said it looks like a lung infection so he’s given antibiotics,something for the pain and steroids and we are being referred to district nurses and palliative care team.
i just feel lost she only got diagnosed in march! Iam an only child so I feel like it’s all me and her partner and nobody knows how I feel. I’m angry what this awful disease has done to her…it’s already taken my mum away and I feel like Iam grieving whilst she’s still here. I’m so scared everyday and feel like I’m just waiting for something to happen. I just wondered is all this normal?
thank you for listening just needed to talk to someone x
Thank you so much for your reply.
Iam sorry for what you are going through too. It’s just so scary and uncertain isn’t it. My mum is 66 and she was mobile until her diagnosis now is fully reliant on a scooter etc. Iam just so scared
f what is to come. My anxiety is through the roof. She’s being so strong and Iam when with her but I feel like Iam crumbling inside. I know this will be her last Christmas but now she’s not well I’mcared she won’t get there
